“I said I did as we had a guinea pig at home. I taught year three for one year and then Mrs Audrey Gore, the nursery teacher, retired, in 1986. That was my dream job and I was very lucky.

“I worked as a team with the excellent nursery nurse Vivienne Crossley (nee Beesley), who had been there since the school opened.

“I loved working with young children. They are a delight.

“There were two sessions a day. One from 9am until 11.30am and then another from 1pm until 3.30pm. We had different children in each session. We did lots of arts and crafts. We followed the early years curriculum but we did what the children were interested in. If the weather was nice, we would take the school minibus and drive the children to Worden Park, which was great.” Norah, of Penwortham, retired from the school in 2004, aged 60.

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